Prototype 2

The Prototype franchise is built off a power fantasy. The team at Radical Entertainment wants to give players the feeling of being an unstoppable juggernaut of destruction. In the sequel, they still do that, but it will have a twist.

Instead of playing as Alex Mercer, the hero of the original, players take on the role of Sgt. James Heller, a veteran from the Afghanistan war who returns home to find out that Mercer killed his family. A distraught Heller vows to kill Mercer even if the original Prototype is much stronger than he is. It’s a different way of resetting the powers from one game to another. In Metroidgames, Samus always loses her powers in some ridiculous fashion. In Mass Effect 2, BioWare actually kills Commander Shepard and resurrects him to start his powers back from beginning.

Heller will have similar powers as Alex. He can shapeshift and assume other people’s identities and memories. Black tendrils shoot out of him in some instances. He even has a Mercer’s signature arm blade, but Heller’s has a serrated edge to it in acknowledgement to his military background.